Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:08:37 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where can I find FreeBSD-related SCO lawsuit updates? Message-ID: <20030713053837.GC94666@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3F0EB5BB.1080203@potentialtech.com> References: <20030709125055.GA90046@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030709193315.A494@citusc.usc.edu> <20030710123509.GA97000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3F0D6AAD.9030406@potentialtech.com> <20030710141516.GA97366@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3F0DAFDA.2050708@potentialtech.com> <3F0E91FB.57B452A5@mindspring.com> <3F0EB5BB.1080203@potentialtech.com>
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--NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 11 July 2003 at 9:03:55 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: >> >> In any case, there wasn't any such legal precedent established >> Novell permitting the distribution of FreeBSD and NetBSD. > > I'm still having trouble understanding the motive behind all this. > Obviously, SCO can't seriously believe they can gain anything from > this lawsuit ... Are they nuts and actually think they can win? Is > there some other motive that no one has yet to discern? Even if > the "Microsoft Conspiracy" theories are true, what does MS expect > to gain from such a silly attack, and why would SCO agree to be > a patsy? My current best guess is that they're hoping to get royalties from Linux. That's why they don't want to identify the code; they want it to be in there. They've said a number of things that point to this conclusion. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/SCO/sontag.html: "GPL has the same derivative rights concept [as UNIX]," according to Sontag: "Once contributed, code cannot be removed." Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/EPBdIubykFB6QiMRAj0uAJ4xmeSNp7QCR4f4VArh5jqukq4/TwCgjdtl 0FkaNfJfDgjwhmrfbgcOKhk= =KPoM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NKoe5XOeduwbEQHU--
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